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ennst look to.—(Hear, hear.)—.-But I agree with my Honourable Vrend that the clause for compulsory manumission of slaves is -that to which we must mainly look. All the rest goes in mi tigation of the system ; but this clause is certainly a vital part of the system. The great difference between the plans of his Ma jesty's Ministers and those Hon. Gentlemen who are desirous of a wore rapid progressie, that they risk the desired end to arrive at a precipitate Conclusion ; Whereas we and others wish to retard a little the attainment of the object, in order that we may arrive there with a greater assurance of safety. I agree also, Sir, in many particulars with an Honourable Gentleman opposite, who spoke 'with so much good sense on the subject ; but I differ widely - from him on the subject of compensation. I think nothing can be more monstrous than to admit a principle of compensation in the promotion of measures which . all admit to be measures of amelioration ; and which all . who look upon moral improvement as beneficial must be aware will eventually create a ten-fold improvement in the value of pro perty. I admit, at the same time, that the principle of compul sory rtuinumieeion is one of force, and that the only remedy is in the price which the slave is required to pay to his lord—and here: is thatretnedy provided.—(Hear, hear.)—Although the discus sion upon this question has been unusually long, and many foreign t opics have been introduced ; I am not aware of any other prac- Ilcal points beyond those I have already touched upon, calling for 111 7 attention. Nor at this late hour would it be right for me to detain the House, beyond the precise limits of the question. I hope, however, that li . have not failed to stow; that however the dictates of humanity, the principles of the Christian Religion, and the spirit of the British Constitution may repudiate slavery, and hold it in the detestation it merits ; there is nothing in that , fact to call upoa us to abolish at once the system, at the risk of vedette geringthe safety of those concerned, or doing wrong to those who; interests are involved.—(Cheers.)—l hope that I have also shown that Government is sincere in its endeavour to carry late effect the wishes of Parliament ; and that it is only because we do mot like any thing Which has the appearance of menace that We do not repeat our determination that if, contrary to our hope, we should be met by the Colonies with contumacious opposition, w e shall come to Parliament for aid to effect those changes which ar e not dissonant from the spirit of the British Constitution, and which Parliament will be justified in granting the power to terry into execution, as the production of a wholesome and holy deter initiation on its part"--(Loud cheers.) Sir T. ACLAND rose amidst loud cries of " Question." He al , s , vved that he coueitLrA the resolution of the Hon. Member far Winchelsea as likely to retard the good effects which were "Petted to result from the resolution of the 15th May, 1823. Nor did he w'sa to negative the resolution proposed by the Hon. awl. Learned Gentliman ; and he, therefore, to get out of the dilemma in which' he was placed with regard to the vote which he must give, should move the previous question, Mr. BROUGHAM replied.—The Right lion. Gentleman re *Wei him by his course of reasoning, of that sort of argument in logic by which one escaped from the cause, and directed ate tntion to what co-existed. Slavery, though it co-existed with Christianity, was opposed to its spirit, and existed in spite of it. It was indeed Ail observation of Lord Thurlow, but one quite enworthy of l's understanding, that not a word occurred in Scripture whi:h militated against slavery. It was equally adverse to ih,t spirit of the British Conatituticn, and it argued great ignorance of history to attribute the treaty, which succeeded the great alliance war, to Lord Somers, or the Whigs of his time. That treaty was, in fact, perpetrated by a Tory Administration, towards the close of Queen Anne's , rAgn. It was not his intention, at that late hour, to trespass longer on the time of the House. The Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Canning) had totally mistaken the purport of the Resolution. It did not go to pledge the House to take any measures next Session. If the Colonial Legislatures acted cordi ally in carrying into effect the intentions of Parliament, .it would render it quite uunecessary to proceed to the adoption of any mea 'urea. The blame of those evils that might arise from rejecting this proposition, would juitly fall on those who voted against it. --- (Cheers.) The Howie then divided-- For the Amendment Against it - • Majority against the original Resolution 62 The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the Roust adjourned at Fooa o'CLocx this morning to Friday next. SHIP NEWS. [PROM LLOYDS.' Deal., MAT 19.--Wind S.E.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the'Royal George, Reynolds, from Bengal; New .Phtenix, W hite, Trinidad ; Juno, Starr, Alieant ; Britomart, White, from Liverpool ; the Seger and Ajax turned to the westward on the ebb. PoRTSMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed the Finsbury transport for Hailfax.—llis Mnjesty's Ship Lively for Plymouth, 41 'd MI Majesty's Ship Contest on a cruise. PLyssouytt, MAy 18.—Wind S.W.--Arrived the Victoria transport, from London for Quebec. FALMOUTII, MAY 18. —Wind S.—Arrived the Sisters, Leverick from Trapani, in 46 days. Sailed the Hope Packet, for Jamaica. LIVICRPOOL, MAY 18.—Wind N.—Arrived the Africa, Hospar, from Canapeachy ; Duke of York; from St. Michael's. COWNB, MAY 19.—Arrived the Tartar, Geary, from Manilla. The Crisis, Iran Dyke, from London to New York, was spoken with on the 22d March, in lat. 43. 20. long. 37.40. out b 2 days. NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE. (THIS DAY.) A British ship from Jamaica, and a British schooner, were 1011 t " the Florida Reef, March Ist. • Putt , Anztettra, Arm'. 20.—Arrived the brig Hunter, Latour, f thin Bordeaux; sa il e d Sd M arc h, and spoke brig Finchett, from v L iv "Poni to New York ; out 60. days; on 14th March, lat. 45. kng• 22. SO. ; fell in with the wreck of an English ship, boarded her, and found her laden with lumber ; water logged, rud.; der, fore and mizen masts gone, and abandoned; Penelope was ularked on h er ben, and appeared to have been b u il t f or t h e purpose obf carrying timber. Part of three human skeletons were found on o ard, nitich front. appearance, the crew had subsisted on for me time. Pieces of flesh secured with rope-yarns, long ban*, and some articles of female dress were found, the whole pre k , ta • ng a scene of (Estrella not to be described: The Lottery now on Sale is the Last that will ever be allowed in this Kingdom. The price of Tickets and Shares will rise in a few days. There are Six of £30,000. All to be drawn an "One Day. SIR: ARCHIBALD M , DONALD, BART. - - . OA Thursday evening .the Right lionOurable Sir Archibald M`Do4Sid, Bart. died, at his house in Duke-street, Westminster, at the advanced ae of 79. Ife had'been for some months suffer ins from lam - titles, principallY arising from old age, and which required the constant, attendance of a surgeon and a physician...— Previous to that time he was in the enjoyment of good bodily l e'llth, and was in the const a nt h a bit o f wa lki ng , part i cu l ar ly in St. James's Park.. Ile was crt.ated a Baronet and appointed So licitor-Gmeral in 1'784, and in 1788 succeeded to the office of A ttorney-General, in the room of Sir R. Pepper Arden, late Lord Alvanley, appointed Master of the Rolls. lie conducted the trials of Horne Tooke, Hardy, &e. at the time the present Lord Chancellor .was Solicitor-General; and in 1793 was. appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, in the room of Chief Baron Eyre. In the year 1813 he resigned his seat on the,Bench, on which he gave great satisfaction, by his legal knowledge and the amenity .f his manners, in consequence of the defective state of his eyes, a situation since successively filled by Barons. Thompson, Richards, and the present Chief Baron Alexander. Sir Archibald married, in_l77o, Louisa, eldest daughter of the first Marquess of Stafford, by whom he had one son, the Member for Caine, now Sir James hl.`Douald., and two daughters. W e extract from the Echo de Paris, a very lively Frenett Journal which has just made its appearance in London, the following whimsical description of a Pa ris i an S a l on d e b onne Co ntpaynie, indi ca ti ve of something like a religious fever among our fair Continental neighbours. The re-action may , be natural enough ; hut surely the transition of a " Femme de Cour," a woman of fashion, gallantry, and philosophy, into a pietiate, is 14mewbat marvellous. , " Potter, Odry, Mazurier, and C ourte were h ereto f ore b roug ht vary and en li ven our . soc i et i es , b ut now,--away with the pro fanation !—Abbis replace them. Pruihionables of the new school give us for parti es their soirées pieuses ; we wr i te no l onger at the bottom of our invitation cards ' there will he a fiddle, but !here Will be an Abbe.' Our routs are b ecome prayer mee t- Hl ga, our boudoirs, chapels; and how is this accomplished ply enough. The company arrive full dr esse d f or t h e ball— cl° ue lA diell biding 'their : nosegays in their h an dk erc hi e f s , w ith I t'oealit eyes sea t th emse l ves roun d th e apar tment--an Abbe "te n (his eyes too on. the floor)—he perches himself on a stool, a nd th en f o ll ows a lecture or an exhortation,—each lady makes the Si gn of contrition in the shadow of her fan—the Abbe finishes, , 41,Plaudedi And witildraws--the musicians 'make their appear -4a C ce , And th e b a ll begins--Such, reader, is the Salon do t onne ompapnice! LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY is 26. The proceedings in the House of Peers last night were destitute of any great interest, the several Bills having been passed through their respective stages without many observations. In the House of Commons, on the other hand, a vast number of interesting and important subjects were brought forward, but the length of the debate (the House having sat till 4 o'clock this morning) renders it necessary for us to confine our notice to some of the most prominent topics of discussion. Mr. W. SMITH availed himself of the opportunity afforded by the presenting of .a petition in behalf of the GreekS, to press for some expression in favour of that gallant nation, with the view of showing to Europe that we had not wholly abandoned a Christian people to extermination, nor viewed with indifference the war in which they were engaged. Sir R. WILSON ex pressed a similar opinion, but . Mr. HOBHousE stated, that although he entertained the same feelings for the Greek cause, yet, from some circumstances whi c h h a d lately come to his knowledge, and from a suggestion which had . been given, it might embarrass the measures which His Majesty's Ministers had in con templation, he would abstain from pressing the sub ject at present on their attention. He added, that 'so far from .despairing of the cause of Greece, in conse quence of the Pall of Missolonghi, he anticipated the best results from the effects it would produce, not only on the Christian world,' but also upon the gallant, though unfortimate objects of their sympathy and com passion. No observations were made by His Majesty's Ministers, and the Petition was laid on the Table. Lord MILTON renewed his inquiry, 4,etficr a public 'Vote was intended for the Relief o f the Districts; to which Mr.. CANNING 'replied, that Ministers, after the most anxious inquiry, and the most deliberate consideration, in which feelings of the purest, and most deep-felt sympathy, contended with policy of acting on sound general principles,, had come to the conclusion, that no Parliamentary Grant ought to be made for this purpose. Mr. BROUGHAM brought forward the motion of which he had given notice, respecting the mode in which the Colonial Administrations had carried into effect the measures proposed by Ministers, in conse quence of the Resolutions of the House cif Commons in 1823 ; and, after a long speech, the object of which was to show, that the Colonial Assemblies had mani fested no disposition to promote those measures,. moved, " that the House would early next Session take into its consideration such measures as appear necessary for carrying the Resolutions of 1823 into effect." This motion was lost, after a long Debate, by a majority of 100 to 38. We have' not space - to give an outline of any of the speeches made in the course of this interest ing debate, and we must refer our readers to our Parliamentary Report. We cannot omit to notice,. however, the powerful 'and convineing speech of Mr. CANNING, which exhibited one of the finest Speci mens of that Right Flon...Gentleman's brilliant elo quence, and close reasoning upon soundprinciples. He most conclusively established the p oint, that_while the Constitution and Christianity were.opposed to Slavery, neither required the abolition .of it by public wrong ; and stated that while Ministers intended to carry into effect the gradual big effectual abolition of Slavery, they would resist any measure which would have an air of menace to the ColOnial Legislatures, and lessen the means of effecting tion of his Majesty's G over nment. the wholesome and hol y determina Although we have advocated a Parliamentary Grant for the relief of the Distressed Manufacturing districts, and were the fast to suggest that the amount of duty on the Foreign Corn to be admitted into im mediate consumption should be applied to this pur pose,.. we are' ready to allow the propriety .of the determination of his Majesty's Government on this subject, as stated by Mr. Secretary CANNING last night in the -House'of Comnions. The circumstances of the case have certainly altered very materially. The amount of the charitable subscriptions now going on, has already reached a sum nearly equal to half the grant which it was suggested that Parliament 'should bestow ; and there seems to be a strong expectation entertained, that the current of private charity is by no means exhausted, and that a much larger sum will yet be raised by the benevolent efforts of opulent ,indivi duals. Some improvement in the trade of the manu facturing districts has also been manifested, and ap pearances indicate its more extensive revival. A case, therefore, which so urgently demands the interference of Government, does not seem now to exist :—such a case must be one, not only of extraordinary emer gency and magnitude, but one, to the relief of which all ordinary means have been applied in vain. None other certainly, could at all justify a deviation from a sound general principle. On.the whole, there fore, we are convinced, that His Majesty's Govern ment have come to a right decision on this point,—a decision imperative upon them as Ministers, from con siderations of State Policy ; but painful to them as Men, who deeply sympathise in the sufferings of a most important - class of the community. The decision however, will operate as an intiiiceMent to the more extenstve exertions of individual benevolence, and the end will be as effectually accomplished ,by private, as it would have been by public means.' Accounts have been received at Buenos Ayres, prior to the 14th February, that the William priva teer has made fifty prizes ; these are supposed to be chiefly coasters, &c. and among them a Brazilian Indiaman, outward bound, with a considerable quan tity of specie to purchase a cargo. We received last night French Papers of the 17th, and the Etoile of the 18th, of which the following are extracts. It will be observed, that it is stated in an article dated from Bucharest, that the REIS EFFENDI had refused to accede to the proposals made by our Minister in behalf of the Greeks, and that he had been insulted by the Turkish populace. The general tone of these Papers is indicative of the expectation, that the Russian Ultimatum will not be acceded to by the DIVAN From the Etoile, dated Thursday, May 18.) " The Milan Gazette of the 9th May, has the following article under head of ' The lonian Islands.' " The Greek vessel which arrived at Corfu on the 25th April brought the news of the full of Missolonghi, which took place on the 23d of the same month (Palm Sunday, according to the Greek Calendar), at day break. The Government of the town being reduced to the last extremity, opened the gates, and the troop of the Greeks opened itself a passage through the Ottomans; the latter had scarcely entered the town, when the mines which had been prepared, blew up, and the destruction was dreadful. We expect the particulars of this event, which almost appears to be undoubted. 4, Buntanarr, Ann, 26. " According to the last accounts from Constaetinople, dated the 20th, which have been brought by Couriers, the Reis Effendi has replied, by a formal refusal, to the proposals of Mr. Stratford Canning, in favour of the Greeks. Private letters add, that the English Ambassador, on his return from his conference on this subject with the Reis Effendi, bad been insulted by the Turkish populace, who had collected in the streets; As for M. Minziacky, it is considered as certain. that in case of a formal refusal in an swer to the ultimatum presented to him, be will quit Constanti nople in one day after the expiration of the six weeks' delay given to the Porte. The Divan will hardly come to a decisive resolu tion before that time. .‘ On the 22d, Count Do Weinpfeu, Captain in the Austrian service, passed through this town, going express from Constanti— nople to Vienna. His mission is thought to he of great im portance. (From the Courier Francais.) " emus, MAY 16. " Every thing indicates that hostilities are on the point of com mencing between Russia and the Porte. • • ," A private letter from Augsburg, of May 8, says, ' that at the (late of the latest news from Constantinople, the Porte had not officially answered M. de Minziacky, but the first verbal answer of the Reis Effendi was known, and its tenour ahews that the Otto man Ministry is not destitute of address. 4 4 4 It is glad that the Emperor Nicholas does not confound in his ul(ineatuna the question of the Greek rebels with the Porte; that it learns with pleasure that the intervention of other Ca binets, which for these five years has served only to fetter the ne, gociations with Russia, has at length ceased ; that the Porte, however, had fulfilled its treaties respecting .Moldavia and Wal lachia, since 3,000 Police Guards cannot b e ca lled a military tic • cupation ; that the Porte consequently hoped that Russia on Its part would no longer delay to give up to the Turks the fortresses of Bessarabia, the restitution of which was stipulated by the peace of 1812.' 1 It is not doubted that as soon as this answer is known at St. Petersburgh, it will lead to an order to pass the Pruth; the Porte seems to expect this, for a finnan has already been issued, giving orders to provision the fortresses on the Danube for six months. The 20th May is generally assigned as the day when the Russian troops Will enter the principalities." Fax)tot Futins.—Pants, MAY l'7.—Five per Cents. 96f. lbc. ;—Three per Cents. 64E 10c.—Bank Stock, 2,010 E Rotates de Naples, 78f. ebe.—Royal Spanish Loan, 44i.—.. Exchange on London, one month, 25f. bbc, ; three months, ebE 3bc..-Zeours Aiithentipte, May 17. The following arc extracts from the Flanders Mail:— =lsms, MAY 156 . _ A British - Cabinet Messenger passed through this City on Saturday, who had been at Petersburgh and Constantinople, and was returning► with despatches to Constantinople. A Russian Cabinet Messenger arrived here yesterday, on his way from Lon don to Petersburgh. In our number of the 11th of this month, we extracted from the Dragen, a journal printed at Mons, an article concerning an Asso ciation at Hyan, which wassetgaged in teaching youth, and also in some kinds of manufacture. The .Dragen, which gave all the particulate as authentic, declares in its number of the 13th, that all these details have been found to be false; and adds. " that these men did not pay a personal tax at the rate of 25 individuals, because this tax is always paid according to the fortune or the habitation of the individu:d, and not so much per head. They paid taxes for four persons, and they were never more numerous at Hyun. This was their number the let of May : one is still there, and they have not been sent away by the King, neither have they endeavoured to inspire their pupils with senti ments unfavourable to their Sovereign. All these facts have been related to us by one of the principal Members of the Municipality of that Ceminune." The Dragen also says, that it has learned from good authority that it is not true that the Regency Of Tourtuty has made an ad dress to the King to re-establish the school of the Petits Freres. If this is true, as we willingly believe, it must be owned that it is a piece of audacious impudence to invent stories calculated to aNcet the Magistrates of the city. PRASKIPORT, bEAT 9. The inhabitants of Bonn, following the example of those of Berlin, have opened a subscription for the Greeks, The Vienna' Gazette contains the Resolution of the Emperor on the representation of the Diet of Hungary, dated the 20th of January. This Resolution agrees with the demands of theestates with a very fe* restrictions. AUGSBURG, MAY 11. SOM6 per.otu have Mentioned an order of the late Emperor Alexander, forbiddin g the anhe of children by the Ki rgbis ,„d Kalmuck!. The following is a more particular account of this traffic. PETERSBURCII, APRIL 11 . A few weeks before his death, the humane Emperor Alexander sanctioned a beneficent decision of the Council of the Empire. On the 20th Oct. he signed, at Taganrog, a Doklad of the Coun sel, abolishing for ever, and prohibiting, under severe penalties, the trade with children, which was carried on with circumstances great cruelty by the Kirghis and Kalmuck tribes, on the whole line of Siberia and Orenburg. The manner of this trade was as follows :—The Kirghis and Kalmucks, in their predatory ex cursions, carry off not only cattle but children • they bring the latter to the ma r k e t, w h ere a real wholesale trade ,is carried on with them. The citizens, who carried on this infammurtraffic, either purchased them with money, or gave goods in ex change. The ordinary price of a stolen • Kirghis child was from ten to twenty-five rubles, not more. The facility with which these stolen ' children were disposed of, en couraged the Kirghis-Kalmucks in this species of robbery, which they generally practised in the spring. The persons engaged in this trade kept the children they had purchased 'in the hardest slavery, accompanied with all kinds of privations, till the follow. ing December or January, when they took them in waggons, in great numbers, to the annual fair at Irbit, where citizens or mer chants purchased them with money or goods, or sometimes re ceived them as presents. The Kirghis and Kalmucke, when in times of scarcity their stores of provisions are exhausted, often send their own children for sale to the markets. These unhappy victims are also considered in the most humane manner in the abovementione,d Decree of the Cotincil of the Empire of Oct. 20, 1825. The Central Authorities of Siberia and Orenburgh are enjoined to fix the expences of maintaining them, to place them with humane villagers, who are to be indemnified for trouble in bringing them up by the labour of their children when they are older; and after a certain number of years, the latter become wholly five. PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 2OO 3 per Cent. Red. 77 3 per Cent. Cons. 771 8 If 31 per Cent. Ditto Red. W,I/1 4 per. Cent. New O4l Hato Scrip par Rink Long Ann. l6ll 11.16 India Stock Dittoßonds 9 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds 5 per cent.... Brasilian:Bonds . ss},j Buenos Ayres Bonds Chaim) Bonds, 6 per cent. 10 2 Colombian Bondi 39 40 Ditto, 1824 41% '2 I% Danish, 3 per cent. 5.86 Greek Bonds Ditto, 18211 154 15 Guatimala Mexican Bonds Ditto, 1825 62 17 PRICES OF SHARE; Mexican Mining Company Welch Iron and Coal Mining Alliance Fire and Life Infuram Canal Gas Engine Company COURSE Of EXCH, Amsterdam C.F. 12 8 Ditto, at eight Rotterdam 2U. 12 9 Antwerp l2 U Hataburgli 2g U. 37 8 Altoni 2g U. 37 9 Part', 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 95 Bordeaux 25 95 Berlin 7 Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 156 Petersburgh, rb1e...t... 3U. 8g Vienna, eircctive 0 2 M. 10 22 Tideste do. Madrid 3 5 14 Cadiz Gilboa Barcelona Seville Gibraltar 3l NOE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47 Genoa 4: 1 14 Venice MAta _ _ . . Naples 33% Palermo per or. 115 Lisbon soii Oporto 50% Rio Janeiro 43 Bahia 47 Buenos Ayres 43 Dublin, 21 days' sight P4 Cork 1 .'s BULLION, nits oh. s. d. Portugal Gold, In coin 00 0 Foreign Gold, In bare "I 11 0 New Doubloons 1 14 New Dollar,' Silver, in bars, standard 0 4 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 8 9 pm. Ditto 509 2d. R 9 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Advertised ... . .... ....—.... Bank for Account India for Account Cons. tbr Acconnt 7B 71 NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 . _ Perini ln Bonds SI Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. Bt. )-- -ii Ditto, New Russian, New, 5 per cent. 74% 5 .- ci Spanish, 182 i, 5 per cent. ... 7% 8 ----, 1823 5 French Renter, 5 p. c. —f . —c. ---- Exchange -1. -c. —3 per cent. --Exchange —t. —c. i AT OWE &CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. £li 6 nnpany... 25 Company 10 1 10 54, Arrived Due. 1 Dublin I Waterford 0 0 Guernsey St Jersey 0 • Lisbon 1 O Gottenburgh 2 O Hamburgh 0 1 Holland 0 O France ILS. Arrived.. O Flanders 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Malta O America 1 O Brazil I O Buenos Ayres lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 40 minutes after 1. Evening 10 minutes after t Zbe 4:* mi. THE FUNDS. A Quarter past Twelve a' Clock. Consols have opened this morning at 77k, 78, and have con tinued at this price. Scarcely any thing doing but making up ac counts for the 23d instant. Two o' Clock. Consols have continued with scarcely any variation since the last quotation, 77i, 78 ; and for account 78k, sellers. In the Foreign Funds it has been a complete blank day. NORTIIUMbERLAND ELECTION. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] NEWCASTUIC-ON.TYNE, MAY HI. That sager skirmishing, which is more or less the characteristic of all contested elections, is, 'as may be supposed, not wanting in Northumberland at the l•resent crisis. The partisans of the Hon. Mr. Liddell and Mr. Bell respectively fulmiaate upon each other in no very measured terms ; and my Lord Howick, last week, while addressing the freeholders at Alnwiek, rather indulged in a tirade against Mr. Beaumont, on account of some misconstrued words which the latter Gentleman (Mr. B.) had spoken at the grand election dinner, at the Queen's Head, on the 28th ult. Mr. Beaumont has, howeycr, in a perfectly mild, candid, and gentlemanly tone, replied to Lord Howick's observations, as published in theNete 7 . castle Chronicle on the 19th instant ; and there can be 'no doubt that his Lordship must see he has been imposed upon with regard to the Honourable Member. Seldom has the Writer seen a public document more the subject of eulogy than this Address of Mr. Beuumont's to the Freeholders of Northumberland. It was the general topic of discussion among all parties this day. The COllllllOll place avocations of the mercantile body on 'Change gave way to Electioneering Interests ; and every honourable and impartial mind exultingly exclaimed—." You tee how ably and satisfactorily Mr. Beaumont refutes the calumnies of his enemies." I should, however, (I fear) appear tedious were I to recapitu late all that has been said in praise of Mr. Beaumont's moderation since the Address in question appeared among the Electors here. One thing is quite certain—the lion. Member's cause, strong as it is already in the County's affections, will derive additional aid from the good sense and amiable feeling .which the writer dis plays in this his latest appeal to his Constituents. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Clarence came to town from Bushy-park to take leave of the King, the Princess Augusta, &c. previous to their leaving England for Germany for a short time. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Bushy-park. Yesterday Prince Leopold had a numerous grand dinner-party at Marlborough-house, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Yurk and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Among the company were Prince Estorhazy, the Prince and Princess Polignac, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of Liverpool, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Countess of Bridgewater, Mr. and Mrs. Peel, the Countess Lieven, &c. A private letter from Macclesfield, dated Wednes day evening last, states that Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield appeared at large in that town on this morn ing of that day, and in the afternoon surrendered him self into custody. Mr. Wakefield had not been ad mitted to bail. TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLAGE AND PROCEEDINGS IN CORK. We are sorry to announce that on Monday last a mob assembled in Cork, paraded the streets, and com mitted a violent assault on one of the High Sheriffs. The following is an abridged account from a Cork Paper of yesterday About one o'clock a vast mob had proceeded through many of the streets, and were met in Patrick street by Mr. Sheriff Spearing. It appears that an address to the Mayor had been prepared, which was intended to he presented to him at the Mansion-house by the congregated multitude. With this view, it should seem, they commenced their procession, bear ing with them three placards, each of which had the following inscription. : We want employment—ourselves and our fami lies u a . r h e en sta th rv e i y ng i; ' ad proceeded Sheriff Fearing, attended by a few peace-officers, ap, proached them, and in the most feeling and friendly manner remonstrated with them on the injudicious steps they had taken, requiring them to give up their banners, and retire peaceably to their houses. He ex pressed his regret for their situation, and strongly re commended that 'they should appoint a. deputation of their body to wait on the Mayor, who he was sure would most attentivelylisten to their complaints, and such mea sures would be adopted as were practicable, to alleviate their distress. . While he Was expostulating with them • in this mild and friendly manner—almost unattended —in the centre of an immense Mass of people—those behind him began to be clamorous, and to close on him. This he bore patiently, and still continued to expostulate with the mob, when a ruffian struck him, from behind his back, a blow on the face and cut him severely. Mr. Spearing instantly turned round on the assailant, but the multitude bore down on hiM with most dreadful imprecations, until lie was shopoblig in Patrick -street, into deavoured to f orce them we d h i t c o h It; o r e n f c u i gtsea rioters selves, happily without effect. The alarm of these viol e nt proceedings soon spread, and a detachment froin the main guard, an a dditional number of constables, the Mayor and Sheriff Newsom arrived, and paraded the streets for sometime ; the Mayor and Sheriffs re monstrating with the mob, and cautioning them against a repetition of such 'disgraceful proceedings. Shortly after a party of the 3d Dragoon Guards. arri ve d f rom the barracks, and also paraded the stre e t s , di spers i ng the crowds. wherever they found them most numerous, until o'clock, when Een i t , r w anl ia uil i lity was at length re _ stored. --- Du blin LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—(Tma Day.) ' Before Me Lord Chief Juifice and a Special Joiri , • ' LIBEL.—HARRIETT - WILSON. - ' • FIVIIXIC V. STOCIICDAT.E. This was an action fora libel published in the iilth rif "' the Memoirs of Haniett Serjeant VAUGUAN said that the plaintiff WAS an Attorney re sident in Dorsebthire, who brpught this action to redeem his 41-' racter from foul imputations cast on it in the publication in "ques tion---and, in so doing, - he thought he could not do givater''':. to his country. It was impossible for the Jury to live in this country, and not to know that this Work was of so 4csia. dalous and. abusive 'a nature, that every legal _ exertion ought , to be made to suppress it. Mr. Stoekdale himself had • ad., witted this; for, in his defence to an action brought to re-' cover compensation for printing it, fie had intrusted hie Counsel to say, , that the Jury ought not to support persons who rendered themselves instrumental in putting forth .sueli an infamous work. lie considered Mr. Stoiltdale i more wicled character than A highwayman ;, for in every number of these that he published, he inserted the names of those that were to appear in the subsequent number, (as if holding forth a bill 0f„.6; fare to the public,) in order to. draw.trioney out, of the pockets of. the intended victims, many of, whom. would rather pay than have their names appear in so ridiculous a light. The lib‘l''' l4l ", in question was introduced in, the 9th number of the Me moire of Harriett Wilson, thus ;—" An old .Irish cracked GeL 's-;;;;! neral asked me if I knew Fisher, the lady-killer ?—" God forbid;'. said I. He is just the man fur you,' replied the General, ' for he i ! s ag a t p h r a a t etica vile l sl sh ia a r b p by la D w u ye k r e , t a r e nd a t wyiol put you u h p e i t s n a a v l e ) l ry a n g n ay f n ut ' i l k ; the beauty of Devonshire, six feet tall, and bus black eyes, &c.' She then went on state that she had written to him on profes sional business, and, had received an answer, requesting her to call at his chambers after dark, he would then be alone, &c. She then commented on this fabricated letter, designating it as an at tack on her chastity, and censuring the impudence of a dirty, nasty, six feet high country lawyer, in attempting to make love to her. Mr. Fisher was also introduced as having said to the Gtne ral that though he had heard a great deal about her, he did nut think much of her, for she bad not a good point. The Learned Serjoant said, that the,pluintiff had a large family and an amiable wife, who could not avoid feeling affected by this publication, and that he had thought proper to proceed in this mode of action to give the defendant an opportunity of putting a justification on record; his neglecting to do that was sufficient evidence of the falsehood of the imputation. Thomas Alitchelson deposed that he had pnrchased the number containing the libel at Mr. Stockdale's. John Marshall proved the marriage of the 'plaintiff in 1195 ; he had read the libel in (petition, and thought it alluded to Mr. Fisher ; there was no other person of the name iu that neigh bourhoOd. Mr.. Sergeant Srataxxv. for the defendant, told the Jury that they should leave out of their consideration every knowledge of ••-• the book except what was contained in the number before them ; it contained nothing of the nature of an imputation on the plain. . tiff, for the person there represented was Charles Frederic Fisher, whereas, the plaintiff on record was Hugh Evans Fisher, win) had no right to appropriate to himself the description alluded to. If he was a vain man, the honour of having been libelled in such good' company as that ()Wok es and illarquisses should be g ratifyin g to hint. This foolish, wicked, vain woman imppoaed that it was impossible for any person to see her without falling in love with her—and though she herself was of the amp of womankind, yet she affect ed, with aristocratic pride, to despise country attornies--but whether it was u drama, or taken from a romance, or alluded to some Mr. Fisher that lived-in the times of the civil war, there • was no evidence; but it was foolish in the plaintiff to suppose that it alluded to himself; the Jury must have rend in the Spectator, where some pragmatical num wrote down the Whole Duty of Man, and applied Meilen* parts of it to every man in the parish. This shelved the inclination of. mankind to form ideas of other persons; and so will Mr. Fisher, who fancied, us he had been 6 feet high, and had black eyes, that none other could be meant but himself. The Learned Sergeant here indulged in a strain of ridiettle whereby he amused the Court fur a consider able time, and concluded by telling the Jury that they ought not to encourage un attorney, whose object in coming forward was to Speculate in damages on the character of the publication. The CHIEF JUSTICIt said, that this was a titrtde, but. not a At subject for ridicule ; it was for the Jury, who wero'married men, to nay whether a publication, imputing to a man who had a wife • and children, that he was in the habit of loving every pretty we- . man he could see, but was too impotent to satisfy his passion, should be let pass with impunity. • The plaintiff was represented in that book in the manner which an ancient poet repreaented a lewd woman—losaata non so ' tiatit virin—independent of the injury to his moral character it wait calculated to effect him profession:4l4; .for what family • would employ an attorney to make marriage settlements if they believed hint guilty of the conduct here imputed .to him.-- - The Learned Judge concluded an eloquent charge, by recommend•: ing the Jury to give siich damages as would operate to check such publications for the future. • - . Verdict—Seven Hundred Pounds. damages. COURT OF KING'S BENCH--(This DAY). liltOWN V. S43TITII. Mr. ("ATRIM 'dated the cue. The plaintiff was the Carpenter of the South Sea whaler the Zephyr, and agreed to go a voyage:. in 1821, on condition of being paid one nintieth of the probe arising from the sale of the oil. The ship returned in 1823, but the plaintiff had received only a sum of money, by no means the just account due to him. The Lann . Clitar JUSTICt suggested the propriety of referring the ease, which was acceded to. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTINU. The fallowing is s statement of the txhis up to tvelve o'clorit this day, awl it will he seen that the alterations are very portant : mcnov. tf to I agst The Omen! (tn.) II to 1 agst {eihnkspeltre ACO 1 apt The /doslent (tn.) 14 to I a s Itl-IWrch 7to I agst Dervise (taken). 2I to IZI got Dorina 7 to I agar Rush's (takett) 24 to I agst Truth II to I not 2A to 1 , 110 Forth'* II to 1 opt Advance 2,fk to I agtit Pluto 6 to 5 agst Problem 9 to 1 itgst slignionatte 9 to 1 ugst Puritpluic 10 to 1 :tgitt Mutter(ly 11 to 1 apt Tear& 11 to 1 agat Breeze 17 to 1 agst Motel 20 to 1 agst '2O to 1 apt Elizabeth 20 to 1 agat Do-peep 13 to 1 agst Crusader 17 to 1 agst Fanny 22 to I agst NT. L 4 to 1 ant Belzoni (taken) 6 to 1 agzt ilettlantite (taken) 11 to 1 apt Cslypso HAY MARKETS-4TH= D4or.), • (At per load of 80 trusses.) ST. lit Mr./N.—Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow nay, new 11/. 10e. to St 10e. ; fine Upland Meadow and nye Gram Hay; 8/. 10s. to N. Os. ; Clover Huy, M. 10s. to 6/. 10%; Oat Straw 11. 14s. to 1!. lbs. ; Wheat Straw, 11, 18.. to 2/. 2r. ply good, and trad e lull, but no alteration in prim.. SAI MI —Gum heavy Lowland . Meadow Hay, from 21. 10s. to 8!. Ms. ; flue Upland Meadow and Dye Grass Hay, 8/. 10s. to 4/. Ws.; CloVer Hay, generally, 81. 6s, to 4!. 10a. extraordinary tine, 61. ; Oat Straw, 1/. Ilta. to 1!. lb*, ; Wheat Straw, U. lbs. to U. 10s. Meadow Hay, 10.. and Clovvr Hay from M. to Os. per load higher ; Straw from Va. to So, per . load lower than on Thursday. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.—(Tnts I)AY.) Potatoes, from 3s. to 7s. per cwt., which is about from ls. 101 to 4s. Od. per Winchester bushel ; Cabbages, frtim Is. to 2s. Cauliflowers, from 12s. to 40s. per dozen heads; llorse-radialt: from 2s. to 4s. ; forced Asparagus, from 2.. to 4s. ;natural paragus, from 4s. to 10s. ; Brocoli, from IL to Ss. ; and Ce lery, front la. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per bundle; Colewurts or Gretna, from la. ad. to 24.04.; Young Onions, from 10. to Ss. -; and Leeks, from tit So. Od. per dozen bunches ; Bpinage, from 10d. to le. 6d. ; Green Gooseberries, be. to Is. ; Applto, common uoc,. fro" 2a. 6d. to tea. Od. ; and choice eating AP phst, from IL Od. to lia. 04. per half sievo--about a third of bushel ; Radishes, front Sd. to' ,6d. per dozen banda3 sound sweet Oranges, frinn 6g, 0d; 4 0 149. Od. ; and :. mons, from .611. Od. to lbs. Od. per 100—or the former front Si. Os. to 41. lbs., the latter from 31.,130. to 4/. 10s, per. of two bOxett; Spanish Chestnuts, from 98. to 12s. Chesnuto, from bit.• to 10a. ; Spanish, ihtale Nuts :from 44 .2 n , 1 ; and French Walnuts, from bs. to 10s. par perk; "rw- Po is. O tatoets fflo. rom 6d l stood 20 oung. Od. T per Pos undfrom ; Young' TI, per, d. to ; a. yi C A bunch ; Coss I.ettucee, from. la. to Ss p .. 6d. ; , tem 7: 4 in chests are cons id era bl y d earer , b ut e xpected . the toer causiteowy) anti most kinds of V*Fulahles, cheaper *w ow carrot*, Old than on this day su'zunglit ; Or OtOt tit Onions, and Old Turnips, appear to l+o 1 , 0 4 ' o " 'lawn. Supply good, and to* 1w w 4 !'^,~. ..'~' , 4 , 1 T,